Hot Melts Adhesives Optimization for Quality at Lower Costs

Hot melts often compete with other adhesives technologies on the basis of cost – a renewed daily challenge with steady raw material and energy price increase! Watch & learn current valid cost-cutting solutions !

1. Feed your HMA cost reduction program (formulation & processing) with valid solutions & avoid loss in melt properties, wetting, adhesion, shear, peel, tack, durability...


2. Clarify how latest developments in base polymers and additives can be used to reduce the hot melt adhesive costs


3. Learn what other companies have done; what worked, what didn’t, and why – this is exclusive content that you won't find in books or on the internet

Experienced adhesive formulators looking for solutions to develop more cost-effective Hot Melts.

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This course will look at all aspects of hot melt adhesive formulation as it relates to cost. The objective is to promote practices that control the consistency and performance properties of the adhesive but yet provide reduced costs.

Introduction (Important cost and quality components)

Formulation ingredients: polymers

• Raw material shortages / growing demand
• Base polymer: Cost reducing alternatives
• Lower cost base polymer used in HMAs
• Higher cost base polymer used in HMAs (it can also help in formulation cost reduction!)
• Ethylene Vinyl Acetate Copolymers: Optimization of EVA formulation
• Styrene Butadiene Copolymers: Strategies to Reduce Isoprene Content
• Low Cost Polypropylene HMA

Formulation ingredients: additives

• Tackifiers - Cost Reduction Examples & Performance improvement
• Plasticizers: how it affects the cost
• Waxes: shortages in supply
• Cost reducing fillers

Optimized formulation development and compounding processes

Examples of possible savings

Shared cost reductions that benefit both formulator and end-user

Review of Recent Development Activities

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